David Beckham gets up close and personal with Mr. Porter

One of the most famous men on the planet – David Beckham – gets up close and personal with Mr. Porter for a new interview and shoot. Discover the best of the special feature here...

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The world's most famous football star opens up to Mr. Porter, starring in a special shoot. Join Buro 24/7 Middle East as we bring you the best bits and head here for the full feature...

“I don’t know… The style thing, it’s not something I do on purpose, I don’t wake up in the morning and think I’m going to wear this and this today, I just go out in what I feel comfortable in.”

On where his passion for style came from:

“I actually don’t know,” he said. “My dad definitely wasn’t into style. He was dressed all right, but he was never into fashion, even though he was a mod back in the day. He had an amazing Vespa that got nicked outside my gran’s house. But I don’t know where it came from. It was there even at a young age. I was a pageboy when I was really young, and I had a choice of whether to choose a suit or knickerbockers – and I chose knickerbockers.”

“I think it’s important for people to have their own sense of style – a personal style. I think there are certain rules, especially when you’re English, because you’re brought up on ‘this is how a gentleman should dress’. If you’re lucky enough to be able to afford it, you can go to Savile Row and have a suit made, or you can go and see how people dress. We’re brought up around that. I think we’re lucky to have that. In that sense of fashion, and the way men dress, there are rules. But I do also think that rules are made to be broken and I think I’ve done that over the years, in good ways and in bad ways. But I’m having fun and I wear what I like to wear: I don’t get told what to wear. It’s always important to have your own mind.”

On dipping his toes into acting:

“I saw an article the other day that said this is my new career, and it’s really not. It’s something that I’ve dipped myself into from time to time, but I only did it for a friend, Guy. I did a small bit in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and I’ve done little bit more for him in [Knights of the Roundtable:] King Arthur, and then obviously there’s what we’ve done with the Outlaws. But it’s definitely not my new career, it’s just fun, it’s not something that I’m training to be better at.”